Friday, 3 October 2008

Derridata, we were talking recently about data visualisation tools in the context of information management, and it got me wondering about the kind of distributed forms of agency these managers might find themselves privvy to as we lose the sense of such environments as "containers". I had some of these thoughts during my prac, when I was in the basement going through the older stuff taken off the shelves, and I came across a very impressive study of arcologies, and wondered if libraries would ever take shape along these lines to minimise their environmental footprint? Or would the information managers be networking (i.e. distributed) in a range of environments, using these sophisticated tools to assist geographers, biologists etc? (the other articles listed in this piece are also definitely worth reading).

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